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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:16:23AM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote: > > No, it's the fact that we're encouraging modifying the core to support > something that could be done in a module. [snip hack pod] > How many of those paragraphs would you like to remove? I realize that my meger skill with words is insufficient to the task of converting any true believers in the faith of podhack, though I must respond. I say ALL of them. It is exactly because of those words and this fear of change that people fear perl has stagnated. They are why so many of us are waiting on the perl6 mailing lists. It is why the god Larry is bestowing his revelations upon the flock, and the good shepherd Damian is preaching to the stray. Because though we speak the language ever day of our lives, it has become too much of a holy tongue, fit only for performing priestly acts of ritual programming. Is it not ironic that our fear of spawning new dialects of perl has spawed a Tower of Babel in perl6? I will be the first to agree that many new forms are best achieved in modules. Yet there are many concepts, rwx permissions on scalars being one of them, that are best enforced by the core. Maybe Perl really does need another implementation / dialect in order to remain a living language. This argument you have presented has almost convinced me. David J. Goehrig, Who is going back to the shadows to lurk,Thread Previous | Thread Next